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Originally Posted by Matthew Shea  I'm hoping you all can give me a little insight on the topic of conspiracy theories. I've never been one to believe in them personally, seeing them as a sort of mental trap for the unwary, but a friend of mine sent me a link to a video last week describing a conspiracy to control the world with RFID implants in every man, woman and child. This friend of mine is a very intelligent person, so I'm having trouble understanding why an intelligent person would buy into such things. I'm not looking for advice on dealing with my friend, but a little insight in general about why people buy into conspiracy theories would be welcome. |
Look at your friends side. Read his sources and make up your own mind. I have a friend who has similar crazy ideas.. when I looked up his sources and started to do reading on the matter, I saw it was actually much worse than what he proposed. I keep my mouth shut because I know how crazy the stuff sounds and to be honest most Americans are so selfish and short sighted, I would be wasting my breath.
Currently, there is a major epidemic of mistrust for the US govt... and with good reason. The lies and deception are so blatant that its hard to believe more people aren't upset. Those who DO care enough to speak out and question the status quo are marginalized and called "conspiracy theorists". These days mainstream thought is challenged at your own risk. If your a celebraty or politician speaking about something that is not popular with this or that group, you will be crusified.
You've got to question what is going on.
Lets take an example such as the Iraq war. First of all here is what VP Cheney had to say about taking out
Saddam in 94 -->
YouTube - Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire C-SPAN
Shortly after 9/11 and an attack on Afghanistan the Bush administration started talking about hitting Iraq. WHY? Well, first they talked about an
Al Queda Suddam connection. Then they talked about
Weapons of Mass Destruction. They didn't find any. Now the US is supposedly there for the "freedom of the iraqi people".
"Riddle me this, batman." If the infrastructure was re-built up by Iraqi business' it wouldn't that stimulate jobs and ignite the economy. This would be the first thing any capitalist worth their salt would recommend but much of the 1/2 Trillion dollars the US has spent to "win" the war (aside from going there to support the troops) goes to the
contractors there. Many of the jobs they are doing could be done by the Iraqi people. Isn't are mission supposed to be to stablize the country?
So a reasonable person must ask: what is really going on? why did we originally go there? If it was to find WMD's, then maybe we should move on.. because we've already determined that they are not there. Was it for terrorists? There were no terrorists threatening the US from Iraq before we got there. How about to topple Saddam? Well, we've already done that remember "
Mission Accomplished!"
So why are we there? Why did we go there?